set trap

Example Sentences

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Be sure to search out all the old hollow logs near streams and set trap in or near entrance--place bait in log.

From Mink Trapping A Book of Instruction Giving Many Methods of Trapping—A Valuable Book for Trappers. by Harding, A. R. (Arthur Robert)

Thus nothing was easier than to set trap after trap, into each of which the simple fellow fell as they were set—fell fatally.

From Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas by Souvestre, Pierre

This was precisely what Kah-go-mish had hoped they would do, and right before them lay the other part of his cunningly set trap.

From The Red Mustang by Stoddard, William O.

Be sure to cover chain of trap good, and have everything look as natural when you leave us when you came to set trap.

From Fox Trapping A Book of Instruction Telling How to Trap, Snare, Poison and Shoot - A Valuable Book for Trappers by Harding, A. R. (Arthur Robert)

Make the cavity large enough to set trap about 3 inches deep, place ring over stake and drive stake in ground under where you set the trap.

From Fox Trapping A Book of Instruction Telling How to Trap, Snare, Poison and Shoot - A Valuable Book for Trappers by Harding, A. R. (Arthur Robert)